Big Changes for Juneau!

June 19, 2013
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Great news!  Juneau Public Library has joined forces with Anchorage Public, the University of Alaska system, and many more libraries across the state!  This has multiple impacts for the public and staff. 1.  Users now have access to a lot more materials, both in variety and numbers.  Now if there is a book or DVD […]

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New Books in Juvenile Literature reviewed May 2013

June 16, 2013
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Evaluations by Juvenile Book Review Committee  (community volunteers)   Being Henry David written by Cal Armistead     A tall, good looking teenager finds himself in Penn Station with a bleeding head wound and a paperback of Walden by Henry David Thoreau and no memory of who he is but he is frightened about something. He […]

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EVENT: Author visit, Eowyn Ivey!

May 23, 2013
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May 30th – Thursday – 7:00 pm – Downtown Library Come see Eowyn Ivey, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, give a presentation about her novel “The Snow Child”.  “The Snow Child”, based on a Russian fairy tale, is about a 1920s Alaska homesteading couple who desperately long for a child they can’t have and build one […]

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EVENT: Richard Hatch, Deceptionist!

April 20, 2013
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Richard Hatch, Magician at Large! April 27th – Saturday – 3 pm – Douglas Library Come see Richard Hatch, ‘deceptionist’, perform at the Douglas Library on Saturday, April 27th at 3:00 pm.  Hatch, a professional magician and author, will be performing his children’s book Taro-San the Fisherman and the Weeping Willow Tree, based on an […]

EVENT: Culture Days @ The Library

April 17, 2013
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Culture Days @ The Library April 25th – Thursday – 6:30 pm – Downtown Library Ishmael Angaluuk Hope will present the program Haa Léelk’w Hás Xh’agaxhtutée: We Will Imitate Our Grandparents at the Downtown library at 6:30 on Thursday, April 25th.  He will talk about his apprenticeship of becoming an indigenous storyteller, especially focusing on […]

EVENT: Author Vaughn Sherman presents Sea Travels: Memoirs of a 20th Century Master Mariner

April 12, 2013
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Sea Travels: Memoirs of a 20th Century Master Mariner – Author Vaughn Sherman   April 16th – Tuesday – 6:30 pm – Douglas Library   Come listen to author Vaughn Sherman as he discusses the life and travel of his uncle, J. Holger Christensen, a Master Mariner, at the Douglas Library on Tuesday, April 16th, […]

Juvenile Literature Reviews, March 2013

March 18, 2013
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Crush: The Theory, Practice, and Destructive Properties of Love Written by Gary Paulsen         This is another book about Kevin, a scheming middle schooler who tries to apply scientific theorizing to developing a romantic relationship with a girl. There are laughs along the way as when he creates a mess trying to provide […]

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